The Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Technology (CMUT) has emerged as a promising alternative to piezoelectric transducers in the medical ultrasound market since 1990s. Compared to piezoelectric technology, the MEMS ...

In this dissertation, we address the issue of collaborative information processing for diffusive source parameter estimation using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) capable of sensing in dispersive medium/environment, from ...

Over the past few years, considerable progress has been made in the
area of networked robotic systems and mobile sensor networks. The
vision of a mobile sensor network cooperatively learning and
adapting in harsh unknown ...

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States with over 3.5M annual cases. Statistics from the Americans Cancer Society indicate that 20% of the American population will develop this disease during their ...

To meet the demands of the exponential growth in video, voice, data and mobile device traffic over the internet, the telecommunication industry has been moving toward higher speed protocols such as 40-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s. ...

The research presented here is focused on achieving an active compact RF/Photonic antenna module based on a broadband antenna design integrated with a quantum dot mode-locked laser (QDMLL). A two-section QDMLL is used to ...

Utilities, faced with increasingly limited resources, strive to maintain high levels of reliability in energy delivery by adopting improved methodologies in planning, operation, construction and maintenance. On the other ...

Mobile intelligent networks can play a key role in many different areas from emergency response, surveillance and security, and battlefield operations to smart homes and factories and environmental monitoring. Accurate ...

As automated control systems grow in prevalence and complexity, there is an increasing demand for verification and controller synthesis methods to ensure these systems perform safely and to desired specifications. In ...

With the growing pervasiveness of modern computer technology, sensors, and networks, the amount of data collected in and about society, medicine, and the environment, for example, is exploding. Large-scale data sets are ...

The main contribution of this dissertation is to propose conditions for linear filter and controller design, considering both robust and parameter dependent structures, for discrete time-varying systems. The controllers, ...

This dissertation contains three major parts: (1) demonstration of the algorithmic spectrometry in the mid-IR sensing regime using spectrally tunable quantum dots-in-a-well (DWELL) IR detector without employing any spectral ...

InAs/GaSb type-II strained layer superlattices are a material used for infrared detection. By adjusting the thickness of the InAs and GaSb layers, the material bandgap can be tuned to absorb photons from 3-30 um. Compared ...

The historical and continuing exponential growth in processor capability continues to provide the parallel growth in supercomputer and datacenter capacity. Technological requirements to continue this growth include high ...

The ability of reconfigurable antennas to tune resonances, change polarization and modify their radiation patterns, made their development imperative in modern telecommunication systems. Their agility and diversity created ...

The electromagnetic (EM) characteristics of hot-wire detonators are determined in order to quantify more precisely their response to EM illumination. The analyses include a comprehensive study of detonators’ physical ...

Since the mid-1970s, the field of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) technology has extended to include High-Power Electromagnetic (HPE) sources/antennas. Two such EMP/HPE antennas, designed to address unique applications, are ...